Sentences with phrase «opioid painkiller drugs»

That is why our opioid painkiller drug overdose lawyers offer free and confidential case consultations to recovering addicts or those who lost loved ones to prescription painkiller overdoses.

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These devices dispense a drug called buprenorphine — itself an opioid, but one that doesn't produce the sort of euphoric and addictive high that more powerful painkillers such as OxyContin and morphine do.

Taking dangerous quantities of the otherwise safe loperamide is one strategy being used by people addicted to opioid painkillers and other drugs since it can increase opioid absorption in the gut; the FDA says it is now working with loperamide manufacturers to change its packaging so that it comes with fewer doses and is thus harder to abuse.

One key factor contributing to the trend is the major spike in fatalities related to drugs, including prescription painkillers containing addictive opioids (like oxycodone and fentanyl) and illegal drugs like heroin; another is the second straight year that gun deaths have risen after 15 years of remaining relatively stable.

A new government - funded study suggests that addictive opioid painkillers may not be better than other, non-opioid kinds of drugs for treating chronic back pain and arthritis.

The US is suffering from a deadly opioid epidemic, especially in rural areas, thanks to the widespread use of drugs like OxyContin as painkillers.

CVS, for example, began limiting prescriptions to seven days and prioritizing lower - dose drugs, and a number of legal complaints have been leveled against opioid manufacturers, who have been accused of using misleading marketing tactics that may have caused more patients to get hooked on potentially addicting painkillers.

Since fentanyl is so much more potent than other opioid painkillers, drug traffickers only need to pack their drugs with small amounts of it to provide users a powerful punch.

Fentanyl, the drug that tragically killed musical genius Prince, is an opioid painkiller that's 50 times stronger than pure heroin.

In a statement released Friday, coroner Jonathan Lucas said that Petty's system showed signs of several opioid painkillers, including fentanyl and oxycodone, in addition to the other drugs.

Andrew observed a very dangerous trend taking hold: Doctors — who were having new drugs pushed to them by profit - driven pharmaceutical companies — began prescribing extremely powerful and addictive opioid painkillers to patients with almost reckless abandon.

One of the world's largest makers of the painkiller oxycodone has agreed to pay $ 35 million to settle a federal investigation into allegations of suspicious orders of the drug that's part of a nationwide opioid epidemic.

-- Opioid epidemic surcharge ($ 127 million): With New York among the states hit hardest by the heroin and painkiller addiction epidemic, Cuomo is looking to place a 2 - cents - per - milligram tax on opioids sold in the state, to be paid by drug manufacturers.

It was all purportedly part of an ambitious scam to get millions of Americans addicted to opioid painkillers, in order to line the drug companies» pockets.

Woods, 41, had five drugs in his system, including the opioid painkiller hydrocodone, when he was arrested on May 29 in Jupiter, Florida, according to a toxicology report police released at the time.

The county is accusing drug companies and distributors of painkillers made from opioids of downplaying the risks of those kinds of drugs that have fueled a nationwide epidemic of opioid addiction.

The surge in drug overdoses is driven mostly by the improper use of opioids — prescription painkillers, heroin, and increasingly, synthetic drugs like fentanyl.

And just this month, the federal Food and Drug Administration requested Endo Pharmaceuticals, an international pharmaceutical manufacturer, remove Opana ER — a semi-synthetic opioid painkiller — from the market after concluding the drug's potential for abuse outweighed its therapeutic vaDrug Administration requested Endo Pharmaceuticals, an international pharmaceutical manufacturer, remove Opana ER — a semi-synthetic opioid painkiller — from the market after concluding the drug's potential for abuse outweighed its therapeutic vadrug's potential for abuse outweighed its therapeutic value.

Fewer veterans received prescriptions for risky dosages of opioid painkillers after a national initiative took aim at reducing high doses and potentially dangerous drug combinations, a new study finds.

The Bradfords haven't yet analyzed how many of those doses were opioid drugs versus other painkillers, but David Bradford suspects it's a large chunk.

This well - established placebo protocol is known to function similarly to opioid painkillers, while avoiding the drugs» side effects.

If researchers can use venoms to develop a drug that blocks this channel, we could provide relief for chronic pain sufferers and possibly shake our dependence on opioid - based painkillers, such as oxycodone or hydrocodone.

Scientists are searching for a different kind of shot to prevent such tragedies: a vaccine to counter addiction to heroin and other opioids, such as the prescription painkiller fentanyl and similar knockoff drugs.

They found the number of ED visits by patients age 21 and younger for any reason who were diagnosed with addiction or dependency on opioids — which include prescription painkillers as well as illicit drugs such as heroin — rose from 32,235 in 2008 to 49,626 in 2013.

The history of addiction involving laudanum and other opioid painkillers — America's first epidemic of opioid addiction occurred in the second half of the nineteenth century — may have worried many physicians considering this new crop of drugs.

The use of heroin has become a replacement for opioid painkillers, such as OxyContin, after the push to end these prescription drugs.

In November, a presidential commission headed by Mr. Trump's one - time political rival for the Republican presidential nomination, former Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, issued a 56 - recommendation report that included calls for the federal government to set up drug courts across the U.S., retrain medical prescribers on opioid use and reduce incentives for doctors to offer the powerful painkillers.

In November 2010, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a recall of Darvon, the brand name of propoxyphene, a prescription opioid painkiller that received FDA approval in 1957.

Given these risks, most life insurance companies deny coverage to an applicant who tests positive for addictive drugs, including cocaine, meth, heroin, non-prescription painkillers or opioids.

The Trump administration said it will seek stiffer penalties against drug dealers — including the death penalty where appropriate under current law — and it wants the number of prescriptions for powerful painkillers to be cut by one - third nationwide as part of a broad effort to combat the opioid crisis.